This is how the poem begins: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed, And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

VOA: special.2009.04.12

The conflictedness that Milton is encapsulating here is probably most intense in the last lines of this wonderful stanza: / "With flow'r-inwov'n tresses torn / the Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn."

弥尔顿在这想要化解的冲突,可能在这一段中最激烈：,少女的头发被扯断/,黄昏时在杂乱的灌木丛中哀叹“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

National flags across India will be flown at half-staff Friday to mourn the death of the chief minister of the key southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03